Author George R.R. Martin may be taking his sweet time writing The Winds of Winter—due out in 2016 or maybe even never—but he's definitely completed at least one chapter, which we can confirm because he just released it on his website.

Why he's doing things like releasing chapters and not, say, writing the death scene of your favorite character is currently unclear. According to reports, however, he's finally starting to take my burning desire to find out how this mess ends seriously—he reportedly canceled a series of public appearances and declined to write any of the scripts on this season of GOT in an effort to buckle down and write.